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A photo of a little boy who became separated from his family while fleeing Syria is going viral.

Members of the U.N. Refugee Agency found Marwan wandering alone in a barren landscape, Andrew Harper, the UNHRC representative to Jordan, tweeted on Sunday. The 4-year-old was toting a plastic bag, containing his possessions, that was nearly as big as he is.

The U.N. helped Marwan cross into Jordan and he was safely reunited with his mother minutes later, Harper tweeted two hours ago.

Harper tells the BBC that Marwan’s plight is not uncommon in the “chaos and confusion” of the Syria crisis.

In Jordan, there are about 600,000 Syrian refugees, a fraction of the 2.4 million displaced by the civil war.

George H.W. Bush, who was not well enough to join the Presidents Club (Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter) at the memorial in South Africa on Tuesday for Nelson Mandela, instead joined Twitter to offer his condolences.

As of Tuesday evening, @GeorgeHWBush already had more than 34,000 followers.

The 89-year-old is a conservative when it comes to following others on Twitter. He’s sticking to family: his sons Neil and Jeb and daughter-in-law Laura.

“All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge,” says Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist and atheist, in a tweet that ended with a backhanded compliment. “They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.” Continue reading →

Forget about weapons of mass destruction, what about weapons of media destruction.

With one tweet — Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured — the group that calls itself the Syrian Electronic Army sent the Dow into a nose dive last week. Continue reading →